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Sunday, June 15, 2014

I refashioned these shorts last fall, But short season is back! I loved doing his denim shorts refashion because it was easy and affordable. I love that 80's style splatter paint look right now! This is my twist on the dip dyed shorts mixed with splatter paint.I hope you enjoy this easy DIY tutorial for a pair of white denim shorts with neon splatter paint on the hem. If you have any questions just ask. After all I spend my days and nights hoping someone is reading my tutorials.

This is an EASY Step by step Tutorial This is a step by step tutorial that will teach you how to refashion jean shorts into white and pink splatter painted shorts. I used girls size shorts but this tutorial will work for any size shorts. I used pink for my splatter painted hem but I think any color will look perfect.

Before and After

I think you could get away with out using the textile medium, but I love it. It is very affordable on Amazon.com. It makes your acrylic paint into fabric paint.(so that one purchase makes your whole paint stash turns into fabric paint!) All you have to do is mix some of the textile medium into your paint and your good to go. Using the textile medium will make the paint softer and more durable when you wash it.

When you are finished your shorts should look something like this! If you do make a pair please let me show them off! Send me a picture I will publish it for you.

A while back someone donated a big bag of very used girls clothes to me. I always love a donation! For this project I pulled some jean shorts from that bag. They had good fabric and bad stains. I knew they would be the perfect pair to fix up and donate to someone's little girl.

(Please email me if you need a project donated to your little one)

Lets get started with this tutorial!

Steps 1-4(above)

1. Get Denim shorts

2. Add bleach and water to a sink

3. Soak and watch until they reach the color you want

4. Wash and Dry

*Tip After you remove your shorts out of the bleach and water mix they will continue to become lighter and lighter until they are rinsed clean of all the bleach. Just like cupcakes keep on cooking until coolStep 5After your shorts are dry put cardboard between the legs, This will prevent any paint from seeping through. Also use tape and plastic to protect any part of the shorts that you do not want getting splatter painted.

Step 6

Mix your paint.

Jar 1, mix the textile medium with the pink. (fallow the directions on the bottle)

Jar 2, mix the textile medium with the White

Jar 3, mix some of the pink and white(after the medium is added) together to make a lighter pink color.

*Tip I made a little diagram about mixing the paint for those of you who are more visual learners.

Step 7Paint your shorts

1st paint the dark pink along the hem on the front and back of the shorts. Leave it imperfect.

2nd Splatter paint with the light pink over the first(dark) layer of paint.

3ed Splatter with the white paint over the first 2 layers of paint.

*Tip To get the splatter look use your paint brush to flick and drizzle paint.

After the splatters dry you remove the plastic. You can then add some other details if you want. I painted the coin pocket and the button detail in solid pink. Let it dry according to the textile medium directions. Then wash and dry.

Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 24th week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

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This week's Featured Blogger is Joules from Pocketful of Joules. Joules has been blogging since March 2011 on everything from losing a job,
finding a new one, selling a house, buying a house, moving twice, getting
pregnant and popping out a baby 2 months early. She’s a full time working
mother, a blogger, a DIYer, a writer and a gourmet marshmallow eater. Be sure to pay her a visit!

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 23rd week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

It's time to tattle and hop!

It's a share your crazy, gross, hilarious, in-the-trenches
parenthood stories, or any tattle that you may want to share with us, that has
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hear yours! You don't have to have kids to participate!

Just leave a comment with your story, post not required! So
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and Co-Hostesses, visit and discover other blogs, and have fun!

Remember the easiest way to get a follow back is to
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and share, share, share! This is a hop designed for you to have fun and share!
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This week's featured blogger is Confessions of a (Not-so-) Super Mom! She describes her blog as: "A not-so-prolific blog about whatever I feel like, regarding my not-so-super and totally self-deprecating parenting." You should go check out her blog and give her some lovin'!

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Saturday, September 21, 2013

This morning I
received an email fromChrisitna Perraki
the owner and editor of fauxbilicious.blogspot.com.She mainly blogs about jewelry. Because she is blogging from Greece she had to She translated her
post into English for me. I am so glad she did becausejust LOVE it. I am glad to be able to
feature her tutorial today. I hope you love it too.

DIY: Brass NecklaceRecentlyI came acrossa last year's issue of Mirror magazine. It presented some ofthe most famousbloggerson the internet.Among them wasErica Domesek from P.S.I made this.A blogfull of DIYprojects.So I got inspired and madethis:You will need:5 great rings. The rings are of a diameter of 4 cm Twotypes ofchains.Pliers.Clasp.The process in pictures:

Friday, September 20, 2013

Do you have a craft Tutorial
that you would love to have featured here on My Life On the Divide? Well guess
what? I would love to feature you and your craft tutorial. Featuring other
bloggers tutorials is going to be a new segment for my blog. I don’t have a lot of
rules for submitting a tutorial.

2.
Under the link to the tutorial I need the HTML code. Cut and paste the tutorials HTML code to the email under the link.

If your tutorial is accepted for featuring I will email you back a short questionnaire to fill out. With the date that your tutorial will be featured. So you can promote it if you want.

A few things that might cause your submission to be denied:

1.The quality of
the photographs. I will not feature poorly photographed submissions.

2. Huge watermarks or watermarks that cover the photos I will give you more than enough credit for your work. I understand wanting to have a water mark on your work. But if you use a huge one or one that goes across the whole photo, please remove them before submission.

2. If you received compensation for tutorial I might not be able to feature it.

How to get around these things?

1. Edit your photos if you feel that they are not going to be acceptable. Use picmonkey or other editing program to fix up your pictures. I attached two of my tutorials that show the type of images I use. Yours do not have to look like mine. This is just so you have an idea.( Please don't be too worried about this :)